I will do my best to not be a thorn in their sides; but I also refuse to let them get away with things that could cause us trouble down the road....if that makes sense? In both of my experiences with tract houses, the beautiful thing about warranty work is that the foreman/superintendent is *not* responsible for getting the subs to fix anything; it's an entirely different process. Which is good, because I don't have to breathe down the neck of the guy who was overworked -- I get to bug the Fix It folks, since that is, in fact, their jobs (so they aren't really being "bothered.") :-) They've all been great to work with so far, and even say things like, "You paid for this, they should've done it right the first time, but don't worry, I'll fix it and I'll do it better because they didn't know what they were doing!" -- And then they give me free kitchen drawers and touch up markers, lol. And I totally know the feeling of, "This is the nicest house I've ever lived in my whole life." My mom, during the build, was saying things like, "But you're paying good money for this house!" And I'm like, "Well, it feels that way *to us*, but the reality is, it's not 'good money' for the area. I'd have to spend double or triple for 'good money.' I can only pick 2 of 'Cheap, Fast, and Quality'... And a tract home is by far less expensive than custom, it only takes 3 months to build, so quality will naturally suffer." But that's okay, because it's *still* the nicest house I've ever lived in, so far! (And I said the same thing about the first tract we built, lol.) OH!!! Did y'all have a third party inspector? Is it too late to get one??? Definitely, if you can (read your contract), hire your own inspector -- Everything our inspector noted as semi-important or critical was addressed without ANY hesitation!

Another thought since you have a light pine ceiling. Stain cabinets and door same as ceiling. It's all tricky since you have several finishes--trim, ceiling, walls, floors. Other option is a pale color as in photo below. In any case, be thinking also about layered lighting around the space--overhead, pendant, kitchen counter lamps to light up the room. Oh, especially add undercabinet lighting, which will bounce light up from your light countertops!

Painted white

Lol -- get out of my brain! We had a hickory engineered hardwood floor very much like that in our previous home (see pic) and I loved it too. This was our previous home: But I hope you're just leaning toward mid-brown rather than attempting to get too close to the pic you posted, since it features hickory vs. red oak, it's wide plank, it's hand-scraped, etc. Now, both of us are dealing with a very different beast. No matter what color stain you choose, it's going to have a red cast unless you go very dark or take extra measures to reduce the red. There's a two-step product called Bona Red Out that can be applied to the raw wood after sanding, and it will neutralize a lot of the red and pink. You can also select a stain that has some green in it, since green is red's opposite on the color wheel. Since you like Jacobean, you could try mixing it with Duraseal Silvered Gray (a light color), and with Rustic Beige (a little darker), and with Provincial (darker, but still with a cool/ashy undertone).